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Show (una Lex me sdd (hat whan Cori-snton' Cori-snton' was put on ths Mit, her with . rut of 10 people, Luk afterwards took th show a a tour of southern Utah, traTellng with a wage ihoir, and ha played tha great hlatorleal tlar ct the Mormon church with four othar paraona beside hlmaelf, ha Impersonating Imper-sonating all but tha four ebarae-tara. ebarae-tara. Ha waa with tha old stock company, tha greatest Block company com-pany aver In lha Went, that played tha old Qrand theatre when Blanch Be tea waa there with a 3 ealary of I per week. Harry Oor eon Clark lit per week and P. M. Jrewley It per week. But I am reminiscing now. sir story waa about lMk Oosgraea and I hare told It- . COSGRAVE NEAR -TO FAINTING AT SALARY OFFER "Around Hollywood." said a ITtahn who today returned from a vlatt to the playground ' of tha Halted Btatea, "there la a good atory floating about the veteran actor, Luke Cosgrav, who- appeared ap-peared in tbe-motion plctur "Hollywood," "Hol-lywood," which waa shown In Halt Lake last week, and in which Cosgrav Cos-grav mad a great success. "In ths old dsys in Utah actors wer not paid the princely salaries that th movl stars receive," continued con-tinued this Utahn. "I aent out a road show from Halt Lake In which Luke Cosgrav waa tha atar. There la no queetlon aa to the abrllty of tha old actor, and ha was a great favotit in tb srasll towns and also In a stock company which I had In Salt Lake. His salary of $2 per week waa near th top notch, and when Luk would receive re-ceive hla weekly pay check be was In ecstacies. This was In the years gone by. He now receives f lia per week. "8o when Luk went to Holly-woon Holly-woon to see what he might do In the movlea ha had acrewed up hla courage to aek a salary of lis per week. When he had a talk with the manager of the company andl the point of salary was reached and th manager ssld: "Now, Mr. Cosgrav. aa to salary, how would 20 a wer k as a statV Vfiy." said Luka to me. "my" old heart Juet stopped bsating .for a moment. A fortune In a week! Did I accept? Well, I just couldn't got shold ot that pea quirk enough to sign th contract, for It sounded so much Ilk a fairy tale that I was sfrai.l that It would vanish." "Dear old Luke. 1 am Just aa i happy aa ha la over his good for- j |